Eduardo González
Journalist Florentino Llera joined the Royal Household’s communications team this Monday, February 2nd, after fourteen years at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Llera thus begins a new professional chapter as deputy to the Director of Communications for the Royal Household, Rosa Lerchundi, replacing veteran journalist Javier Arenas, who has retired after ten years in the position.
Llera, born in Mieres in 1976, is a journalism and communications professional with a long career who began at the Asturian newspaper ‘La Nueva España’ in the 1990s. From there he moved to the EFE news agency, before joining the Fax Press agency, under the direction of Manu Leguineche and, later, Pilar Cernuda.
In 2006, he joined the founding team of the business newspaper ‘El Economista,’ where he remained until 2012. That year, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he held communications responsibilities under six ministers from two different governments: he began with José Manuel García-Margallo and Alfonso Dastis (both from the People’s Party), and continued with Josep Borrell, Margarita Robles (temporarily), Arancha González Laya, and the current minister, José Manuel Albares (Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party).
During his fourteen years at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was awarded the Order of Civil Merit in 2019, a year in which he carried out several diplomatic missions to Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia. He has managed various diplomatic crises and has been part of the delegations of ministers, secretaries of state, and members of the Royal Family on several official trips abroad to more than 120 countries.